Earthcore

Good sci-fi thriller. Fun book. Page turner.

Sometimes you need a book just to pass the time. Sometimes you don't want to go to deep. Sometimes you need a book that you can put down and then come back to when you feel like. Scott is very good at these kind of books. Earthcore may be one of his better ones. Hope along for the ride and enjoy it while it lasts!

Currently “read” the audio version of the novel from podiobooks.com

It's not often that an author can make a serious claim at having created a genre, but in some ways that's what Sigler did with this, the world's first ever podcast-exclusive audiobook.

The story's pretty simple - a group of miners discover a giant deposit of platinum deep in a mountain in Utah ... but as they start to mine it, they start to realize that they're not alone. Sigler's a good enough of an author to prevent the story from being cliched, and has a lot of fun telling the story of what lies beneath Funeral Mountain. Not as good as his later work, but fun to listen to all the same.

Man, I'm glad I snagged a copy of this book before it became unavailable. Scott Sigler is a friend and Crown recently scooped all of his books, including this gem. The good news there is that we'll probably see it again, the bad news is that it's no longer in print...for now.

BUT, when it comes back in print, it's well worth reading. It's a subterrainean thriller, which I'm, for some reason, drawn to (my favorite novel is The Descent). Earthcore is fun, inteligent and scary. Three nights in a row I stayed up well past my bedtime reading this book.

Rather than go on about the book that you, for now, can't buy, I'd like to point out that Scott's new book, INFECTED will be released by Crown on April 1. I've read two of Scott's books now and I have no doubt in my mind that INFECTED will cause me to lose more sleep.

– Jeremy Robinson
www.jeremyrobinsononline.com